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Drambo by BeepStreet released
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Did you try dragging downward on the updates list? It often doesn't refresh on its own. Pulling down and holding for a sec. forces a refresh.
Yep. Even pulled down multiple times. Lots of ice gear updates but no drambo. Even checked twice, once after I knew there was supposed to be an update.
Is the new(?) pitch modulator just a multi-input add module with input bias? From the help I really couldn’t figure out what input it was expecting. I first tried a reference audio signal, then a midi note, finally a knob. When I noticed that an input of 0.125 modulated the input up an octave it kind of made sense.
The help indicates that the output is supposed to be integer multiples of the input frequency which sounds like it is supposed to be generating harmonics but that isn’t what the module is doing.
Anyone else figure it out yet?
Wouldn’t is be cool if Drambo had a tuner?
Good question.
The 0.125 is an octave.
You can use the midi to cv module to get
a signal going into the pitch module and then quantize signal
coming out the using the scale and cv quantizer modules for instance.
I put this together after reading your question.
I'll play around with it and see what I come up with.
Re: pitch module, looks like misplaced help text
for the pitch - overtone module.
The Pitch Modulator basically acts as a mixer, but it looks for a pitch signal by default and sends pitch signal. You could for instance use it to combine an lfo and an envelope to modulate an oscillators pitch.
Easier than connecting a regular mixer to pitch, adjusting the amount to max, then also adding modulators, and assigning it manually to the pitch input of another module.
In the simplest case of using an lfo with the pitch modulator, would math’s add module give the same result assuming the lfo’s pitch input is turned all the way up? Just trying to understand if it does anything non-obvious.
Yes, seems to me that there's no difference. Pitch CV does this by design IMHO.
Switch tutorial:
After months of not having the time to I finally spent the week getting to know Drambo and it is incredible. Initially I had a hard time doing anything outside of building a simple synthesizer but after "Ben's" tutorials whom I think is @bcrichards ? I have been able to figure out a ton more. So thanks to Ben for taking the time to do these videos as they are extremely helpful.
This will sound cheesy but I honestly don't think I need another app at the moment outside of fx as Drambo is so flexible and quick to use once you get used to it. It is the best music production environment I have ever used on the iPad. Truly Spectacular work @giku_beepstreet
Thanks a lot! Its just the beginning.
Wow. what's already there is just unbelievable and will take a lot more time to scratch the surface but adding more to this mammoth beast is impressive at the least. I would write more about how special Drambo is but I'd much rather be playing with Drambo. Thank you.
@sippy_cup thanks sippy cup. @SoundForMore is also making TONS of tutorials, really turning them out too.
Holy Man! He is prolific.
@sippy_cup said:
The video on oscilators is pure gold. And @bcrichards wrote that's its very dated... obsolete.
Still. Lot's of clues on how to start building synths in drambo.
I feel sorry for you. Buying new apps is too much fun to ever stop and learn one. It's more like getting a cookbook and never eating out. Sad. But with Covid on the loose I might follow
you down the rabbit hole just to stave off the boredom and post fewer comments.
@McD only meant there’s lots new features since
@sippy_cup be sure to check out all the cool patches and projects people have shared on patchstorage as well
https://patchstorage.com/platform/drambo/
Sure. But understanding the choices for oscillators is key to sound design.
Someday, I'm going to watch that one and build every option and save it as a template.
The one where you use an LFO as an oscillator blew me away. I was waiting for you
to isolate a 60 cycle hum from a segment of wire and use a pitch shifter to make a synth
from it but you lost focus on all the possibilities. Get to work, slacker. When AUv3's
are available there will be a few more permutations and combinations to document...
like 2 to the 32nd power roughly.
I have purchased many music applications. Never have I felt this until Drambo arrived and I started using it in depth. Even if Beepstreet ceased development today it would still be one of the deeper production environments I have used on this platform. Money is at a premium for me due to covid and rampant unemployment. I need to be wary of spending until things improve and Drambo is the perfect reason to stick with one app.
@bcrichards Yes I have found patchstorage to be a very good place to glean some ideas. @rs2000 has a really nice RAT distortion in there that he or she or they keep improving. You have some good ones there too.
@rs2000 during the war years:
Use Drambo Rat cautiously... it comes it a bit H-O-T:
In fact I had similar work wear years ago 😂
If i was to spend all my time watching Drambo videos I might miss a sale.
Beginner user here. I saw a tutorial where the pads were being used to toggle channel mutes in AUM, by using the "MIDI cc generator" with signal from the gate of a "MIDI to cv". Would it be possible to set up some logic so that the CC value (from tapping a pad) would only be sent on the next sync quantum (beat, bar, etc., set in Drambo)?
@bleep this might work: for my example, I want to send a CC value from the velocity of my pad hit. I have the 1st S&H module that receives velocity signal, and samples on every gate entry. Then I have a Gate sequencer that runs with the clock. On each gate from the sequencer, it triggers a 2nd S&H module to update its held value from the first. A CC generator gets its input from this ‘quantized’ S&H module.
You can do this with playing notes as well, where the SH signal input is your played gate messages, and the gate sequencer quantizer them.
I was suspecting that some combination of S&H and gate sequencer should be able to do bar quantized stuff, but didn't see quite how. Awesome, thanks!
Anyone have a preferred controller they use with Drambo? I’m starting to get curious what would pair well with this for live oriented use
Checkout @echoopera's investigation of the LaunchPad X with Drambo: